The beginning of this story takes place during the sixth episode of the first season of Sekirei, just when Tsukiumi attacks Minato. I wrote the story from my point of view ( hey - it's a fictional anime, and we all have our small fantasies. If you have a problem with that, you should stop reading here. ), and I hope you will enjoy it.

Chapter 1: The Choice

"The link to the anime is stable", said professor Warrenstein to me, whilst looking at some screens to my right. With "the anime" he meant the fictional series

"Sekirei", my favorite anime, and I was just about to step into a real series for the first time. Previously, we only conducted some experiments and tests on

how my body would react to the transportation. It was a new technology, called a "dream portal". It looked basically like a two meters high elliptic mirror, and

the silver surface inside its frame was the actual event horizon. While the portal was recieving data input and an electrical current, the surface became fluid like

water, without flowing down, like it would just didn't give anything about gravity (what it actually didn't.). But enough of the technical details - I reminded

myself to keep going. It was too late to turn back now. I volunteered to take part in this test on my own, nobody forced me to do it. "Okay, I'm ready.", I said,

taking a deep breath and began to walk towards the glowing silver surface. As my skin came in contact with the fluid-like substance, I felt the familiar soft

resistance that was implemented to prevent objects from passing through the dream portal accidentally. I walked all the way in, and a short pain went through

my entire body - the digitalization. The other volunteers developed the nickname "digi-pain" for it, although it wasn't really painful. A few seconds later, my

vision changed from blurred sillouettes to the clear shapes of buildings. I looked down on my hands and I was suddenly reminded that every shape in this

world needed a comic-like frame. As I looked up again, I was shocked by a small, light blue knife-like object flying by my face with a ridiculous speed. After

recovering from the scare, I smiled; I almost forgot how powerful and strong she could be. I pressed the small button on the in-ear headset and gave the

scientist the signal to load up the script that was so essential to my visit here. This script was designed by myself a few days before the test, and it changed

the story of the anime after the point when Minato decided to make Tsukiumi his fourth Sekirei. It simply changed her...target. To me, to be exact. But there

was absolutely no need to worry - after the plan would be successfully completed, nobody would have noticed that one of Minatos potential Sekirei was

missing. They would just be five instead of six, and everyone would be happy. Hehehe. I also made sure that the original series would not be affected by my

small change - I took my Sekirei DVDs, not the official version that the producers owned. Once again, I had to stop myself from thinking about the details too

much and executed the script. A short flash went through the textures of the walls of the nearby buildings and the ground, then it was done. I looked around

me, expecting her beautiful figure to turn around the next corner every moment, as I programmed it. And then, she appeared - just walking at first, but at my

sight, her features darkened and she began to sprint towards me. For a second, I wondered about that, but then I remembered - she wanted to kill me, that's

right! So I started running, faster than I ever did or could do in my real life. This was just a simulation in the end, and I allowed myself to put in some

advantages for my digital self into the script. I was able to run twice as fast, jump twice as high and take twice as much damage than I would normally be able

to. But, to make it a bit fairer for Tsukiumi, I intendendly ran a bit slower and jumped not as high as I could. She shouldn't think that this wouldn't be normal.

After about four minutes of running and jumping, she launched an area attack at me. One of her water darts hit my left leg, and I stumbled onto the ground. It

was more painful than I expected it to be, but I could stand it. I layed with my face on the cold asphalt, unable to move for several seconds. A soft vibration

told me that she just landed nearby. "Why are you running away? You know you can't run from me forever! I will kill you in the end!", I heard her saying with

her wonderful voice. I managed to turn myself around and looked into her eyes. Those deep blue, beautiful eyes. Then, all of a sudden, she clutched her hands

on her chest, wrothing. "Ah!", she yelled, but I was able to hear a slight frustrated undertone in her voice, just like she couldn't accept that her body just did

that to her. "Hey, are you okay?", I asked. I stood up and ran to her to help her up. I softly grabbed her left arm and her right shoulder. She still looked down

at the ground. I lowered my head slightly to look into her eyes, but she just said: "You...you dare...you dare to TOUCH ME?!". The last two words she screamed

into my ears. I thought for a second that my eardrums wouldn't stand a chance against a volume like that, but fortunately, they did - but not without creating a

short pain in my ears. "Ouch...did you really had to shout out so loud into my ears?", I said, protecting my ears with my hands, "That hurt!". "Oh, I'm gonna

hurt you WAY more than that...", Tsukiumi said, avoiding direct eye contact with me. Damn it!, I thought. I didn't expect the anime to be this smart about

changes to the main story. But I still had a few aces to play out. I was in a simulation, and this simulation needed a timecode to run. I was able to control the

part of the program which controlled the time. Slow-mo, bro! But it was neither the right time nor did I need that right now. And again, I was brought back into

the situation by Tsukiumis voice, yelling at me. "Hey, you stupid monkey, what's to see down there on the ground?", and she sent another wave of water

towards me, literally flushing me about ten meters away from her. I withstood the attack as best as I could, but it still felt painful as hell. I mean, I don't get

smashed against a solid wall with a wave of water every day, so I wasn't really prepared for that. "Hey, monkey! What do you have to say now? Answer me!",

Tsukiumi said, already forming another water attack with her right hand. "I said ANSWER ME!". So I stood up, checked that nothing was broken, turned around

to face her and said, just like Minato did: "I want you to be my Sekirei.". After seeing her reaction, I was absolutely sure that the script worked exactly as I

intended it to. In the original series, she asked Minato what he just said to her, obviously in shock. But I added a small sign into her reaction: her right index

finger would bend about 45 degrees for a few seconds before she would say the next sentence. And guess what happened: her right index finger bent about

45 degrees for a few seconds. I smiled. "What's to laugh at, monkey?!", she angrily asked, but before she could continue, a deep thunder came from the sky. I

ran towards her without hesitating, and grabbed her arm, pulling her aside. The lightning stroke hit the ground just a few meters away from us. After a

moment of recovery, she stood up and looked at me with a mixture of frustration and anger. It was obvious what her thoughts are. She just couldn't believe

that I protected her, a simple "monkey", as she would say. "You...you pr-protected me...?", she asked, but this

time, her voice was a lot softer than before. She almost sounded...friendly. She stood up and, suprisingly, allowed me to stand up aswell. I looked into her eyes

again, and this time, she didn't react like before. Instead, she gave me such a sweet and innocent look, just as she wanted to say: "I just want someone to

protect me...I wanted to be the strongest, and I pretended that I'll never need an Ashikabi. But now...my feelings are different.". Wait - she just REALLY said

that? Wow...I didn't think that the simulation would adapt this way, but I appreciated it. "What is your name?", she asked, now with a calm, soft voice. My

heart almost skipped a beat as I said: "My name is Maxi Shineto.". It sounded sweeter than any Dubstep ever could, as she said:" I'm Tsukiumi...n-nice to meet

you, Maxi.". "One question: What did you mean by your feelings being different now? If you don't mind me asking, of course.", I asked her. "Before this

moment, I always hated the idea of having a monkey controlling my body. But I see now that this is not what I really was afraid of. I was afraid of binding

myself and then losing this person.", she explained. "I see. May I ask you what your answer is?", I brought back the question I asked a few minutes ago, "You

know...about becoming my Sekirei?". "As you may have noticed, my body intensely reacted to you, and that must mean that you're my Ashikabi. So, my answer

is yes. Yes, I will and want to become your Sekirei.", she replied, slightly blushing and looking at her shoes. "I don't want you to force yourself to do something

you wouldn't really want yourself. If you have doubts...", I began, but before I could end the sentence, she interrupted me. "The only one who's allowed to kill

you know...is me.", she whispered and came closer to me, looking into my eyes, her look full of desire and love. I smiled and very softly putted my hands on her

cheeks, holding her face only a few inches away from mine. I closed my eyes and kissed her. The moment our lips touched...was incredible. I never felt

something even close to the feeling I had then. My entire body was exploding from adrenaline, in front of my eyes a million colours exploding and sparks of light

dancing. I putted my arms carefully around her, holding her completely. The next second a bright, blue light filled the back yard where we were, and blue wings

appeared in between her shoulders. She sighed and and the kiss ended, her leaning against my chest. I putted one arm softly around the back of her head,

partially covering my face in her wonderful, blonde hair. It smelled like rain, and I loved her with every cell of my body, even if she was just fictional. In the

moment I became her Ashikabi and she became my Sekirei, it didn't matter to me. Nothing mattered for me, except for her, and I knew that she felt the same

way. She became real to me. If nessesscary, I would easily spend the rest of my life in this simulation, just to be with her. I am a very devoted person, but at

the same time, I don't force my partner. We leaned there on the wall for several minutes, until Tsukiumi opened her eyes and looked up to me. "I-I love you,

Maxi. I truly love you from the bottom of my heart." "I love you too, Tsukiumi. From the bottom of my heart. Please, never leave me.", I said, and we kissed

again. It still was the best feeling I ever had. "We should go to somewhere more comfortable, not a back yard. I don't want you to get a cold. Not that you

think that it would matter to me where we are as long as we are together - I just care about you.", I said, slowly standing up. She agreed and grabbed my

hand. I looked at her and we walked away from the spot where our love began, into the sunset, smiling at eachother.